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FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 6 months agothere’s more to an illegal than how they entered the country.
You're going to have to explain what the word means to me then, because the phrase by itself doesn't even seem to refer to immigration status at all and I don't know what you mean by it.
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I gave you the definition of illegal here.
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FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 6 months ago
One that doesn't fit with your later claim that it isn't derogatory so both assertions cannot be true.
The word you used doesn't even mention people so what is it to which you are referring when you use it?
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 6 months ago
There is nothing in the definition that says illegal is a derogatory term. Remember when you forgot about the word sometimes.
The first 3 words in the definition of illegal are “a person who”. When I say illegal I’m referring to a person who has entered or resides in the US illegally.
FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 6 months ago
There very much is, even if we limit our definitions to the one which you gave me. I pointed as much out to you 23 hours ago.
That isn't what that word means except as a slur which your very precious dictionary even cops to.
You still have not answered my inquest regarding how using an adjective as a noun to refer to a person could be anything other than dehumanizing as you still claim that it can potentially be.